
Rome: Italian police investigating a soccer match-fixing scandal placed Juventus trainer Antonio Conte under investigation and arrested the captain of Lazio Stefano Mauri and former Genoa midfielder Omar Milanetto, authorities said on Monday. The Italian football federation said Mauri was one of 14 people arrested. Italian authorities swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence on Monday and made more than a dozen arrests elsewhere as part of...

02:12 PM, May 28, 2012

Bangalore: The Karnataka government has set up a high-level committee to look into encroachment of Wakf properties, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said on Tuesday. The committee would submit its report in four months time, Gowda said in a release. The government had constituted a panel in November last year following complaints and media reports on the role of politicians and Wakf Board officials in the illegal sale of...

12:47 PM, May 22, 2012

New Delhi: The controversy surrounding the alleged leak of Army Chief General VK Singh's letter on lack of ammunition and war preparedness to the Prime Minister is set to rock Parliament on Monday. The BJP has given a notice to raise the matter in the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour. Sources say the government may issue a clarification in Parliament on the issue. This after the person who leaked the...

10:16 AM, May 14, 2012

New Delhi: Government has denied a report that a senior officer in the Cabinet Secretariat was responsible for the leakage of Army Chief General VK Singh's confidential letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on shortage of equipment and ammunition. While the Army Chief has been vindicated, it is the government now which is under the scanner. Sources to CNN-IBN say the Army Chief's letter to the Prime Minister over India's...

07:32 AM, May 14, 2012

Army Chief VK Singh had written to Manmohan Singh on lack of defence preparedness. ...

11:17 PM, May 13, 2012

New Delhi: Sources on Sunday said that the Army did not leak Army Chief General VK Singh's letter to the Prime Minister. The Army Chief had written to Manmohan Singh on lack of defence preparedness. Sources added that an Intelligence Bureau (IB) probe into the matter disclosed that an officer in the Cabinet secretariat was guilty of the leak. An officer of joint secretary level has been blamed for the...

08:59 PM, May 13, 2012

BANGALORE: Abhimanyu only knew how to enter the Chakravyuha (labyrinth). But, I know how to enter and come out of it too, said former CM B S Yeddyurappa immediately after the Supreme Court ordered a CBI probe against him.But, he knows better than anybody that it is easier said than done. Even if one thinks that he would come out of the legal web unscathed, it will be too late...

08:32 AM, May 12, 2012

Thiruvananthapuram: Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Manjula Chellur on Friday gave directions to all the courts in the state for an immediate inquiry into the use of stamp papers, after a massive fraud of fake stamp papers was detected at a lower court here. A media report earlier this week showed the use of fake stamp papers being used by litigators in a few courts here. Following...

02:22 PM, Apr 20, 2012

Mumbai: Assistant police inspector Umesh Patil's 'free' ride is likely to get bumpy in the days to come. MiD DAY had caught the Nagpada cop on camera patrolling on a bike with a fake number plate. Inquiries have revealed that Patil was given the vehicle by a history-sheeter from the area. Patil's superiors had filed a detailed report based on MiD DAY's article and tabled it before the police commissioner,...

08:36 AM, Apr 08, 2012

Bangalore: BJP on Saturday asked the Centre to institute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the issues raised by Army Chief General VK Singh in his letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Party General Secretary HN Ananth Kumar said only JPC could bring out the truth into the remarks Gen Singh has made in the letters that were leaked last week. In the letter, Gen Singh had asked the...

03:21 AM, Apr 01, 2012

Karnataka Congress MLA Roshan Baig said on Tuesday that those who were found guilty in the scam, should be brought to book. ...

04:00 PM, Mar 27, 2012

Lille: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was put under formal investigation by a French court on Monday over his role in a prostitution case, his lawyer said. The move is an esclatation of the case against the Socialist ex-finance minister but falls short of a formal charge. Strauss-Kahn has denied the allegations against him, arguing that he was unaware women he met at parties organised by business associates in Lille,...

02:18 AM, Mar 27, 2012

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Saturday said that the Anshuman Mishra's allegations were 'fabricated' and whatever he was saying with regard to him is absolutely wrong and a 'concoction'. "I will cooperate with the agencies and I contradict the allegations. I deny it. I never asked for funds from anybody like him," Joshi said. The senior BJP leader said that everybody knows how the 2G probe...

08:22 AM, Mar 24, 2012

HYDERABAD: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddys cup of woes contniues to overflow.Former minister and MLA from Secunderabad Cantonment P Shankar Rao has held Reddy and others responsible for illegal disposal of confiscated red sandalwood worth about Rs 500 crore.Shankar Rao filed a public interest litigation petition in the High Court on Thursday, seeking a CBI probe into the alleged scam.The CBI alone can do the job of collecting evidence...

07:43 AM, Mar 23, 2012

Kolkata: West Bengal Pradesh Congress President Pradip Bhattacharya Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the killing of a Congress worker and alleged that party activists were under attack from both the Marxists and the Trinamool Congress in the state. "A Congress worker was killed Saturday night. We condemn this. We demand CBI probe into the killing. The Congress workers are being attacked by both CPI-M and Trinamool in the state,"...

08:50 PM, Mar 18, 2012